“Parents don’t have to be excluded from that decision.” These are the words of the spokesman for the Board and Minister of Economy and Finance, Carlos Fernández Carriedo, when referring to the reform of the Abortion Law approved on Tuesday by the Executive, according to which minors under 16 do not need the permission of their parents to abort “It is good that parents have information about their daughter’s decision, that they can accompany her and be by her side,” he said, while regretting that “the Government has not had enough reflection because there are things that require calm and analysis ».
Before these assessments, Carriedo again and again avoided commenting on the already known underlying aspects of the reform by arguing that the Sánchez Executive “uses very sensitive matters to hide its inability to govern.”
They are, in his opinion, “smokescreens” that seek “so that society does not talk about what is really interesting, such as the difficulties to make ends meet.” He also added that it would have been preferable to seek the maximum consensus and wait for the ruling of the Constitutional Court, which must rule on the Law in force in order to have, in this way, “all the constitutional guarantees.” On the other hand, he did not comment on the tweet by the Vice President of the Board, Juan García-Gallardo (Vox) who, after the reform was approved, indicated that the Government of Spain would have the Board “opposite”. Carriedo, after the meeting of the Governing Council, limited himself to pointing out that it was not up to him to “authorize or disavow” members of the regional Executive and, in any case, he clarified that everyone has the right to give his opinion. . He clarified, however, that “when the law is approved, it will be complied with” in its entirety, as we have done with the current one.
In this sense, given the fact that abortions are performed mainly in private clinics as there are no public health doctors who want to do so, he stated that “our obligation is to guarantee the conscientious objection contained in the Law itself.” “It has to be compatible with women’s rights, so in public centers where it can be done, it is done and, if not, concerts are sought with private clinics,” she added.
Finally, regarding the recognition of casualties due to painful menstruation, charged to the National Institute of Social Security (INSS), the spokesman for the Board assured that any woman who cannot go to work for this reason already has the possibility of requesting a temporary disability. For this reason, while waiting to know “the details of the rule” and see “to what extent this supposed novelty is introduced”, he regretted that a debate has been opened on something that the health system is currently dealing with.
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